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### Viewing cable 07REYKJAVIK20, ICELAND: AFGHANISTAN AND KOSOVO VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF NATO

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07REYKJAVIK20 | 2007-01-26 15:03 | 2011-01-13 05:05 | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | Embassy Reykjavik

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    RUEHZG/NATO EU COLLECTIVE PRIORITY

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L REYKJAVIK 000020

    SIPDIS

    NOFORN
    SIPDIS

    DEFENSE FOR OASD/ISP (J. HURSCH AND J. KELSO)
    EUCOM FOR COL FRANKLIN AND LTC GREEN

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/22/2017
    TAGS: PREL NATO KPKO AF YI HU IC
    SUBJECT: ICELAND: AFGHANISTAN AND KOSOVO VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF NATO
    MINISTERIAL

    REF: A. STATE 7434

         ¶B. STATE 4834
         ¶C. STATE 5652
         ¶D. B. EVANS EMAIL 1/22/07
         ¶E. 06 KABUL 5855
         ¶F. 06 REYKJAVIK 431

    Classified By: Amb. Carol van Voorst for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).

    ¶1.  (C) Summary:  Iceland is supportive of USG goals for the NATO
    informal ministerial on Afghanistan and Kosovo on January 26.  The
    Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) Permanent Secretary outlined for
    Ambassador the Icelandic government's plans to increase peacekeeping
    deployments to Afghanistan, including discussions with Hungary on PRT
    deployments.  Iceland is also considering contributions to law and
    order and counter-narcotics programs, and at the ministerial will
    confirm the Prime Minister's Riga pledge of NATO airlift funding.
    Ambassador also explored ways to raise public awareness of Iceland's
    contributions in Afghanistan, including the idea of a visit to the
    country by the Prime Minister after parliamentary elections here in
    May.  On Kosovo, Iceland intends to support the Ahtisaari plan but
    will wait until an opportune time to say so publicly.  The MFA
    expects that a Nordic-Baltic Political Directors' meeting in February
    will result in a consensus to support the plan. End summary.

    ¶2.  (SBU) In the Foreign Minister's absence, Ambassador called on MFA
    Permanent Secretary Gretar Mar Sigurdsson on January 22 to present
    USG thoughts ahead of the NATO informal ministerial later this week.
    Foreign Minister Valgerdur Sverrisdottir, who will represent Iceland,
    is traveling in Europe ahead of the meeting.

    ¶3.  (SBU) Regarding Afghanistan, Ambassador thanked Sigurdsson for
    Iceland's contributions in Afghanistan, particularly the
    well-regarded Mobile Liaison Observation Team assigned to the
    Provincial Reconstruction Team in Chaghcharan (ref E).  At the same
    time, she noted that the pressure is on for NATO to deliver this
    spring, and that all Allies must take a hard look at what more they
    can offer.  Sigurdsson said it was good to hear that the Icelandic
    team is appreciated and noted that despite the team's planned
    withdrawal in April 2007, some personnel currently assigned to the
    PRT will remain there in other roles.  When the Ambassador suggested
    that Iceland might find another niche for itself in pairing up with
    NATO members who were to lead their first PRTs, the PermSec agreed,
    noting that Iceland has just begun discussions with Hungary on
    possible cooperation in a Hungarian-led PRT, with two specific
    projects (one of which centers on police training) under discussion.

    ¶4.  (SBU) Sigurdsson passed Ambassador a copy of his talking points
    on Afghanistan for recent bilateral security talks in the UK, noting
    that the document gave a good preview of what FM Sverrisdottir would
    have to present in Brussels this week.  The document (scanned and
    emailed to EUR/NB) outlines a planned increase of the total number of
    Icelanders deployed to Afghanistan, though as Sigurdsson noted their
    roles will shift to areas in which Iceland believes it has a "core
    competency."  (Note:  it also confirms Prime Minister Geir Haarde's
    pledge at Riga to fund airlift of personnel and supplies.  End Note.)
     Sigurdsson offered that this was in line with the FM's emphasis on
    shaping Iceland's peacekeeping participation in ways that would be
    able to be clearly understood and supported across Iceland's
    political spectrum (ref F).

    ¶5.  (C) Ambassador expressed appreciation for Iceland's continued
    engagement and plans for increased support to Afghanistan, though she
    cautioned that even "safe-sounding" roles such as midwife training
    can be dangerous peacekeeping assignments.  It could send misleading
    signals to lead the public to believe that peacekeeping deployments
    in unstable regions did not involve risk simply because Icelandic
    participants did not wear uniforms or were unarmed.  She urged the
    government to explain clearly to the parliament and the public why
    these missions were important to do despite acknowledged danger.
    Continuing this theme, Ambassador suggested that the period following
    Iceland's Althingi (parliament) elections this May might be an
    excellent time for the Prime Minister (Haarde or his successor) to
    visit Afghanistan to show support for Iceland's work there and raise
    public awareness of the importance of Iceland's contribution to
    Afghan development and stability.  Sigurdsson enthusiastically
    agreed, noting as well that it might go one better to send the
    Althingi Foreign Affairs Committee, "which doesn't travel enough."
    He noted that FM Sverrisdottir is making a concerted effort to engage
    the Althingi on security and defense issues, including peacekeeping,
    in an effort to bury lingering resentment of the cabinet's tendency

    to unilateral control of foreign affairs.

    ¶6.  (C) Along these lines, Sigurdsson said Iceland should and will
    look to increase its participation in "traditional" PRT roles in the
    coming years, possibly even to include having Icelanders under arms.
    However, in the short term such deployments are not politically
    tenable.  The only way the MFA can elicit such support, he opined, is
    by moving carefully and bringing the Althingi along at every step.
    Ambassador acknowledged this point, and pushed the MFA to encourage
    as much press coverage and high-level attention on Iceland and NATO's
    work in Afghanistan as possible.

    ¶7.  (SBU) On Kosovo, Ambassador noted the urgency of unified
    international support for UN Special Representative Ahtisaari's plan
    for final status.  Sigurdsson agreed, and said the U.S. could expect
    Iceland's support for the plan when the timing was appropriate.  MFA
    Political Director Bergdis Ellertsdottir noted in this vein that she
    expected an upcoming Nordic-Baltic Political Directors' meeting to
    produce a consensus of support for Ahtisaari.  Sigurdsson opined that
    perhaps the Enhanced Partnership in Northern Europe (e-Pine) could be
    a vehicle for coordinating support to Kosovo.

    ¶8.  (C/NF) Comment:  The GOI (and FM Sverrisdottir in particular) is
    still wrestling with the problem of selling Afghan and other
    peacekeeping operations to a skeptical public unaccustomed to seeing
    its citizens in uniform or potentially at risk.  Nonetheless, Iceland
    will be supportive of NATO's goals in Afghanistan, and its
    willingness to explore PRT cooperation with the Hungarians is a
    welcome sign.

    van Voorst

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